Definition of oligarch
:a member or supporter of an oligarchy
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Next, Colbert spent time in Russia with oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, who owns the Brooklyn Nets.
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Sekulow cited Bloomberg News reports that Mueller is scrutinizing some of Trump's business dealings, including a Russian oligarch who purchased a Palm Beach mansion from Trump for $95 million in 2008.
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Sekulow cited Bloomberg News reports that Mueller is scrutinizing some of Trump's business dealings, including a Russian oligarch who purchased a Palm Beach mansion from Trump for $95 million in 2008.
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SOEs had tried such schemes in the 1980s and 1990s, but the government stopped them, fearing that senior executives were siphoning off state assets, much like Russia’s oligarchs.
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Sekulow cited Bloomberg News reports that Mueller is scrutinizing some of Trump's business dealings, including a Russian oligarch who purchased a Palm Beach mansion from Trump for $95 million in 2008.
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Sekulow cited Bloomberg News reports that Mueller is scrutinizing some of Trump's business dealings, including a Russian oligarch who purchased a Palm Beach mansion from Trump for $95 million in 2008.
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One of the more interesting debts is $7.8 million owed to Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Kaveladze is a senior vice president at Crocus Group, the real estate development company run by Azerbaijani-Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, according to Kaveladze's LinkedIn.
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Origin and Etymology of oligarch
Greek oligarchēs, from olig- + -archēs -arch
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